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Gerald Bullett
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Bullett was born in London, the son of businessman Robert Bullet and Ellen Bullett (née Pegg), and educated at <a href="/facts/Jesus_College%2c_Cambridge/2KEUvfPF">Jesus College, Cambridge</a>. During the <a href="/facts/Second_World_War/2efV5L1U">Second World War</a> he worked for the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a> in London, and after the war was a radio broadcaster. Bullett also contributed to the <i><a href="/facts/Times_Literary_Supplement/qFUqnAlD">Times Literary Supplement</a></i>. Politically, Bullett described himself as a "liberal socialist" and claimed to detest "prudery, <a href="/facts/Prohibition/3GMzIpdV">prohibition</a>, <a href="/facts/Blood_sports/pIdFTAyM">blood sports</a>, central heating, and literary tea parties".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Bullett was also an <a href="/facts/Anti-fascist/NNJJj0kL">anti-fascist</a>, describing fascism as "gangsterism on a national scale"; he publicly backed the <a href="/facts/Republican_faction_(Spanish_Civil_War)/57JQVot0">Republican</a> side during the <a href="/facts/Spanish_Civil_War/YykcMvC5">Spanish Civil War</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>One of his novels was <i>Mr. Godly Beside Himself</i> (1924), a humorous <a href="/facts/Fantasy/gkujmhJg">fantasy</a> story about a modern man who exchanges places with his <a href="/facts/Doppelg%25C3%25A4nger/rpgStIar">doppelgänger</a> in <a href="/facts/Fairyland/QEE3yEva">fairyland</a>. <a href="/facts/Brian_Stableford/JKPFVk5M">Brian Stableford</a> likens Bullet's novel to other works of post First World War British fantasy, such as <a href="/facts/Stella_Benson/YeohcfR7">Stella Benson</a>'s <i>Living Alone</i> (1919), and <a href="/facts/Hope_Mirrlees/jYeV9DdD">Hope Mirrlees</a>' <i><a href="/facts/Lud-in-the-Mist/8TzM6qlt">Lud-in-the-Mist</a></i> (1926).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>Bullett was a great admirer of <a href="/facts/Walt_Whitman/dGugaxdb">Walt Whitman</a>, and wrote an essay on Whitman for the book <i>Great Democrats</i> by Alfred Barratt Brown. Here he described Whitman as "a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>In 1926 Bullett established the publishing firm Gerald Howe Ltd. in partnership with Garfield Howe.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> The firm "issued a modest list of titles with a literary bent".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>Bullett died in Chichester, West Sussex, on 3 January 1958.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <ul><li><i>The Progress of Kay, A Series of Glimpses</i> (1916)</li> <li><i>Mice and other poems</i> (1921)</li> <li><i>The Street of the Eye and Nine Other Tales</i> (1923)</li> <li><i>Mr Godly Beside Himself</i> (1924)</li> <li><i>Walt Whitman: A Study and a Selection</i> (1924)</li> <li><i>The Baker's Cart and Other Tales</i> (1925)</li> <li><i>Modern English Fiction</i> (1926)</li> <li><i>Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible</i> (1927)</li> <li><i>The Spanish Caravel</i> (1927); later <i>The Happy Mariners</i> (1956)</li> <li>"Dreaming" (1928) – essay</li> <li><i>The World in Bud and Other Tales</i> (1928)</li> <li><i>Nicky Son of Egg</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>The History of Egg Pandervil</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>Germany</i> (1930)</li> <li><i>Remember Mrs Munch</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Marden Fee</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Helen's Lovers and Other Tales</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>I'll Tell You Everything</i> (1932), by Bullett and <a href="/facts/J._B._Priestley/1wIXNvaE">J. B. Priestley</a></li> <li><i>The Quick and The Dead</i> (1933)</li> <li><i>Eden River</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>The Bubble</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>The Jury</i> (1935) – filmed as <i><a href="/facts/The_Last_Man_to_Hang%253F/97IYPz3Q">The Last Man to Hang?</a></i> in 1956</li> <li><i>The Snare of the Fowler: A Tragedy of Time & Chance</i> (1936), as by Sebastian Fox</li> <li><i>Poems in Pencil</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>The Bending Sickle</i> (1938) – novel</li> <li><i>Twenty Four Tales</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>When the Cat's Away</i> (1940)</li> <li><i>A Man of Forty</i> (1940)</li> <li><i>Winter Solstice</i> (1943)</li> <li><i>The Elderbrook Brothers</i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Judgment in Suspense</i> (1946) – novel</li> <li><i>George Eliot</i> (1947)</li> <li><i>Men at High Table</i> and <i>The House of Strangers</i> (1948)</li> <li><i>Poems</i> (1949)</li> <li><i>Cricket in Heaven</i> (1949)</li> <li><i>The English Mystics</i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Sydney_Smith/eEQXJLVc">Sydney Smith</a>, a Biography and a Selection</i> (1951)</li> <li><i>The Trouble at Number Seven</i> (1952)</li> <li><i>News From The Village</i> (1952) – poems</li> <li><i>The Alderman's Son</i> (1954) – novel</li> <li><i>Windows On A Vanished Time</i> (1955)</li> <li><i>One Man's Poison</i> (1956), as by Sebastian Fox</li> <li><i>The Daughters of Mrs Peacock</i> (1957)</li> <li><i>Odd Woman Out</i> (1958), as by Sebastian Fox</li> <li><i>The Peacock Brides</i> (1958)</li> <li><i>Ten-Minute Tales and Some Others</i> (1959)</li> <li><i>Collected Poems</i> (1959), selected by <a href="/facts/E._M._W._Tillyard/jbAcSSfl">E. M. W. Tillyard</a></li></ul> <h3>As editor</h3> <ul><li><i>The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems</i> (1923)</li> <li><i>Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>The Testament of Light</i> (1932) – anthology</li> <li><i>The Pattern of Courtesy: An Anthology, Continuing the Testament of Light</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>A Book of Good Faith – Montaigne: A Miscellany of Passages</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>The Phœnix and Turtle</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>The Jackdaw's Nest, A Fivefold Anthology</i> (1939)</li> <li><i>Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew Arnold</i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Silver Poets of the 16th Century</i> (1947)</li></ul> <h3>As translator</h3> <ul><li><i>The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse</i> (1946)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikiquote has quotations related to <i>Gerald Bullett</i>. <ul><li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36597">Works by Gerald Bullett</a> at <a href="/facts/Project_Gutenberg/2l0R6GgQ">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a href="https://fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Bullett%2C%20Gerald">Works by Gerald Bullett</a> at <a href="/facts/Distributed_Proofreaders_Canada/IXwv9cGy">Faded Page</a> (Canada)</li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20William%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20W%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Bullett%2C%20G%2E%20W%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Gerald%20William%20Bullett%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Gerald%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22G%2E%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Gerald%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Gerald%20William%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Gerald%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22G%2E%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22G%2E%20William%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20William%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20W%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Bullett%2C%20G%2E%20W%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Bullett%2C%20G%2E%20William%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Gerald%20Bullett%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Gerald%20William%20Bullett%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Gerald%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20title%3A%22G%2E%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Gerald%20Bullett%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Gerald%20William%20Bullett%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Gerald%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20description%3A%22G%2E%20W%2E%20Bullett%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20William%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%20W%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Gerald%20Bullett%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Bullett%2C%20Gerald%22%29%20OR%20%28%221893-1958%22%20AND%20Bullett%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Gerald Bullett</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a href="https://librivox.org/author/12249">Works by Gerald Bullett</a> at <a href="/facts/LibriVox/FF71kJKC">LibriVox</a> (public domain audiobooks) </li> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19971">Gerald Bullett</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database/3pvkKL6m">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79021902">Gerald Bullett</a> at <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a>, with 78 library catalogue records</li> <li><a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/no97057236">Sebastian Fox</a> at LC Authorities, with no records, and <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97057236/">at WorldCat</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Michael Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction (Taplinger Pub. Co., 1978: ISBN 0-8008-8275-X), p. 45. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Twentieth century authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft; (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950, (pp. 217-8) <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Valentine Cunningham, Spanish front: writers on the civil war, Oxford University Press, 1986 ISBN 0192122584 (p.58). <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Brian Stableford, "Bullett, Gerald (William)", in the St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, ed. David Pringle, St. James Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5,(p. 84-5). <a href="/wiki/David_Pringle" target="_blank">/wiki/David_Pringle</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Anthony Arblaster, Honouring The Democrats, Red Pepper, March 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014. <a href="http://www.redpepper.org.uk/honouring-the-democrats/" target="_blank">http://www.redpepper.org.uk/honouring-the-democrats/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"The Bookman", [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35636379 "Books and Authors". The Courier-Mail, 6 October 1934, p. 18. Retrieved 19 August 2024. <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35636379" target="_blank">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35636379</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Soho Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 18 August 2-24. <a href="https://seriesofseries.com/soho-library/" target="_blank">https://seriesofseries.com/soho-library/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Ehrlich, Felicity (4 October 2008). "Bullett, Gerald William (1893–1958), writer and broadcaster". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40888. Retrieved 5 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) <a href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40888" target="_blank">https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40888</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>